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347: The American Revolution (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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The Spiral of American Independence

In 1770, six years before the Declaration of Independence, are we already in a spiral that is going to lead to outright conflict and American independence? I don't think there was anything inevitable about American independence at this point. Not least in the minds of the colonial protesters. We'd have to do an awful lot of intellectual work to imagine some quite significantly different things would have happened between 1770 and 1776.

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